Here are 10 reasons why you should consider trading with me for a T-shirt:

1. T-shirts keep you cool in summer.
2. Love them or hate them, it's always handy to have a T-shirt in your wardrobe for those ultra casual or cool occasions.
3. You like to help other people, and buy trading with me you'll be helping me make my tenth trade, which will mean you'll be helping me get to my goal of office space to mentor other entrepreneurs.
4. T-shirts are fashionable at the gym, on the street, in the taxi, at home, at the shops, at the bar, on the beach.
5. T-shirts are better than socks for a Christmas present.
6. You get to have your name and a photo added to the list of people who traded with me- which means you'll be part of my story!
7. This is probably going to be one of the easiest times and ways to trade with me- you don't need to be too creative on what to offer me, as I'm accepting R183.00, and it's easy to finalise the trade- it all happens online.
8. You'll be one of only 375 people who will have a funky T-shirt with a cool story behind how you came to be wearing it.
9. T-shirts go with most other items of clothing- demins, cords, chinos, etc.
10. The T-shirt is a Springleap.com T-shirt!

Keen to trade with me now? Then please check out the FAQ's on how to trade with me, and get in touch with me and let's make it happen!

Three-Way Trades are where people have offered me a service or product for a T-shirt. I am then offering on that service or product to those people who want to trade with me, but don't want a T-shirt, and would like one of the services or products instead. Thus it becomes a three-way trade.

I've done two successful three-way Trades already. In the first Nikki offered me a place on her workshop which I traded with Michelle. Nikki got a T-shirt, Michelle got to attend her workshop to get her business going, and I traded another of my T-shirts.

The second three-Way trade was with Kerrin of Talent Finders. She offered me a package of two listings on her site for a year each, in exchange for a T-shirt. DJ Al said yes, and a few hours later Marcel Oudejans said yes too. Kerrin was generous and accepted both DJ Al and Marcel's offers, so I ended up trading two more T-shirts. Sweeet!

I still have a few more three-Way Trade offers that are available, and I've summarised them below. If you would like to know more about any of these, please contact me on onematchstick@gmail.com or give me a call on 083 730 2979.


--> Four private Pilates Classes in Fourways, Johannesburg for Three T-shirts (R585.00 for 4 classes valued at R720)

--> A years website hosting plus the development of a wordpress website if you need it, for seven T-shirts (R1281.00 – that's R106.75 per month for 12 months for a website!)

--> 60 Jumpstart Books for one T-shirt – For this I have the charity the Bookshelf Project that is interested in getting these books of no one else wants them- they are just asking for someone to donate the R183.00.

--> Dancing Girl limited edition print by artist Tuesday Houston for two T-shirts (R402 for artwork valued at R900)

Hula limited edition print by artist Tuesday Houston for two T-shirts (R402 for artwork valued at R900)

OR Both Dancing Girl and Hula prints for three T-shirts (R585.00 for artwork valued at R1800.00)

--> One Payroll Workshop in audio and workbook format for one T-shirt (R219.00 valued at R399.99)

-> Four Coaching Sessions for one T-shirt (R183.00)

I hope to be trading with you soon!

I've had a few accomplices over the years who have helped me with my mischief making, especially with my graffiti antics.

Now I found a fellow mischief maker who had some graffiti of his own to graffiti. And I just couldn't help get involved ;)

Adin is living without money so through his network of friends, he got a friend to help out and pay for the spraypaint and she got one of Donna the Fairy Godmother's workshops in return. That's how Adin rolls: you help him; he adds value back to you somehow. Check out his blog to learn more!

I also wanted to rope in Carol- she didn't know she had a graffiti artist in her until I asked her to help me a few weeks ago with these bits of mischief, and now she just can't wait for me to call her and say the walls been painted white and we need to go get up to mischief again. So if anyone wants something painted on their wall- let me know and I'll get you in touch with Carol- it will make her day!

So Adin found out where to get the real deal graffiti spray paint, and we headed off to Rasty's shop 'Grayscale' in Braamfontein. Rasty's one of South Africa's, even the world's, top graffiti artists, (check out his masterpieces here) and it was so cool to meet him. He's the man to hook you up with spray paint if you ever need some! Go visit him at 35A De Korte Street, corner with Henri Street, in Braamfontein sometime and say the 'matchstick girl says hi!

We went via the Pillars under the freeway in Newtown, Johannesburg for some inspiration, and boy- what inspiration it was! Go check out the pillars next time you're in that area!

Then we went and left our mark on the graffiti wall. What do you think of our mischief making?

Shamillah Wilson attended the Cape Town Premiere of the onematchstick Movie, and she has made a very generous offer as a three-way Trade with me.

She's offered four coaching sessions for one T-shirt!

Shamillah is a qualified business coach based in Cape Town and is quite an entrepreneur herself. She has more than ten years experience in leadership development, management and human development. She has worked for the educational sector (UCT), government, and for corporates nationally and internationally. You can read more about her coaching business here, to work out if you'd like to be coached by her.

She's offered four sessions, as she has found from her experience that clients get the best results from a couple of sessions.

If you're not sure if you'd like to be coached, consider how Shamillah describes her coaching and it's benefits:

What is Coaching?
Coaching is a process where the client – an individual or and organisation – identifies a goal or vision and is supported with tools and shifts in awareness that inspires commitment and action necessary to attain the goal.

What are the benefits?
A client can enhance the quality of life by:

• Experiencing greater focus, clarity and purpose
• Improving performance in all areas of life, business and career
• Increasing power and confidence
• Eliminating stress and worry
• Provoking breakthroughs
• Achieving goals one could never reach alone
• Being more organized and prioritising
• Taking control of one's destiny

How does this work?

• by assessment
• by goal setting
• by coaching
• by impact assessment

Shamillah provides these coaching interventions:

• Executive Coaching, in which executive are supported through powerful personal and professional development, learning and performance.
• Entrepreneur Coaching, whereby entrepreneurs are supported to become effective and reach greater levels of achievement and power in establishing their businesses. Entrepreneurs are also offered business support through strategic business plans.
• Life Coaching makes individuals become self-aware and empowered in order to make positive changes in their lives through achieving greater balance establishing powerful relationships.

So if you'd like to explore being coached for four sessions with Shamillah in exchange for one T-shirt purchase, then please CALL ME!

You'll get to change your life,
Shamillah will get a T-shirt,
And I’ll get another T-shirt traded!

It's a win-win-win!

Lewis Khoury has come to the T-shirt trading party with a super 3-Way Trade and offered to deliver 60 of his JumpStart books to anyone for them to distribute them as they see fit. All he wants is one T-shirt in return. Just one.

Lewis's dream has been to communicate with the youth that are entering the workforce and give them not only the crucial information they need in making career choices, but also to inspire them! And his dream has created the JumpStart handbook which is now in its 5th publication.

This book covers topics like:

• Time management
• Studying effectively
• Info on all the universities in South Africa
• How to JumpStart your career- everything from self evaluation tools to opportunities to barriers of fear
• How to start your own business
• How to budget and save
• Buying versus renting a home
• Writing a will
• Depression
• Gangs and bullying
• HIV and AIDs
• Politics and Voting
• The environment

Gosh, the list of topics and useful resources just goes on and on!

So if you're interested in getting 60 copies of this book for the cost of one T-shirt (R183), to hand out and use as you want, then CALL ME and let's make a three-way trade:

You get 60 JumpStart books!
Lewis gets a T-shirt!
I get another T-shirt traded!

The Premiere of the onematchstick movie at Primi Piatti, Cavendish in Cape Town, was another fun evening following on from the Johannesburg Premiere.

We had a fascinating mix of friends arrive! Mongezi was our MC and had the crowd laughing a lot. Adin, the cashless dude, shared about his 7 months of living without money, and some of his plans that he’ll be actioning over the next 4 and a bit years. He launched his competitions to win a years free hosting for websites, and we should hear who the winners are soon.

Eran of Springleap.com also shared some thoughts around the whole matchstick trading idea.

The artist Tuesday Houston came too and gave me the two prints she is trading for two T-shirts each, and I even received some more three-way trade offers for books and coaching sessions!

After the movie and my little speech, there was lots of mingling and exchanging contact details. And then a few of us ended up at Banana Jam for a bit of an after party!

A BIG Thank You to all of those who attended the Premieres! It was loads of fun, and both Adin and I appreciate your support and encouragement!

On my trip to Cape Town last week for the Premiere I was fortunate enough to have timed it to coincide with the Silicon Cape Networking event, the Netweb Event and the 27Dinner. However my timing sucked in that I missed the biggest party in Long Street, Cape Town by 5 days!

At the Netweb event I met Fraser of Absolute Magazine – a hip luxury metropolitan lifestyle online magazine. He liked my matchstick business card, and when the one matchstick Movie went live, he and Warren listed it in the magazine.

They got double the amount of views in the first day of the movie listed in their magazine, than YouTube got. So they challenged me, saying they bet they'll get more views than YouTube. Ooohh!

I'm always up for a challenge, so I took them on! We're going to see which listing of the onematchstick movie has the most views by midday Friday 11 December:
The local Absolute Magazine listing OR the YouTube listing.

So help me out. You decide where to view the onematchstick movie, and either go to Absolute Magazine (and I'm not going to help you with a link here to the page to make it easy) or, even better, go and be a true fan to ME and view the listing on YouTube here by clicking here so I win this challenge (I've made it quite easy to go to YouTube here to see the YouTube one matchstick movie - just with one click here you'll get there- easy peasy). And while you're there watching it quickly (it's only 4:51 mins), leave a comment or rating :)

Also let your friends know about this challenge, and get them to choose (the YouTube listing here, of course!)

;)

Thank you!